Environment

INDIA

More than a thousand people have died from the cold in northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh since December. The freak weather, which has brought temperatures close to freezing and sent demand for electricity up 20 per cent, looks set to continue.

RUSSIA

Ministers say they are still not ready to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, even though Russia stands to make &dollar;20 billion a year by selling its pollution quota. “Nobody is against the protocol,” says Greenpeace in Moscow. “This is just Russian bureaucracy.”

BRITAIN

A barrage across the Severn estuary could supply 6 per cent of Britain’s electricity by …

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